It's not crazy, it's just that it would be a TON of work, with
unproven requirement/return, and where most folks would say Run in an
IFL. Where the data is doesn't really do much for me -- an IFL in
the same box over HiperSockets isn't very far away, and offers all the
usual benefits of z.
On
to lower the overall price.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:28:59 -0500, P S wrote:
... specialty engines help keep the cost of
z/OS and friends high...
They do? Not that I can tell
You say that like it's a negative thing.
Seriously, what's your point? Do you really think a Cadillac costs 2x
as much to build as a Chevy? Do you really think a large Coke at
McDonald's costs them a fraction of what they charge? Do you really
think that the manufacturing cost of the latest x86
BTW: Does anyone use VM and no other OS under it ?
I'm aware of single installation in Poland (they gone AFAIK).
Nobody does that -- they at least run CMS, and VM itself when testing.
But that probably isn't what you meant -- sure, there are still
CMS-only shops, though many of them are at
If they start talking layoffs, suggest an 18-month schedule...
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Ken Gunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rex,
Sadly our goal of getting off the mainframe still persists. We are in
YEAR 15 of an 18 MONTH project to accomplish this goal ;-}.
No. iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, zSeries begat System i, System p,
System x, System z. Now that they've converged the i and p hardware,
IBM is playing games with i -- it's now just i, no System or
Series (stupid -- unsearchable!).
There was no tSeries; there are ThinkPads in various lines,
Both are often necessary -- the PLM tells you what the author MEANT to happen.
ObAnecdote: I supported a set of products that I knew nothing about,
had no PLM, no original author to consult. I wound up calling my
favorite customer about once a month to ask what he thought it SHOULD
be doing in a
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Why, why doesn't ISPF edit, as an option, provide the facility to display
long lines as single fields occupying multiple screen lines,
as XEDIT does.
1. ISPF EDIT appears to be 'stabilised'.
2. Open a requirement.
3.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
4. Use z/VM. :-)
In an all z/OS shop?
This:
:-)
is called an emoticon or a smiley. That one indicates that I was kidding.
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Warner Mach ma...@resa.net wrote:
I happened to read IBM-Main when there was mention that,
at the next SHARE, Sam Knutson would be doing his Fully
Wired Topics presentation; and also that there would be
sessions on the PDS and Review commands. So I will
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Sam Golob sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote:
Hi Folks,
I worked with Eileen Barkow at NYC DOITT (Data Center). Everything she
says is absolutely true. You can't believe it when you're hired there.
Every piece of bureaucracy appears so ridiculous, and that's the
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Bill George william.geo...@ftb.ca.gov wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible with Attachmate's Extra! (I have version
6.71) to modify the screen size to something other than the standard models
(2,3,4,5)? I was able to do this with PComm and Vista and change
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
x == I have no idea.
They started as Blade Servers.
There is also the 't' -- thinkpads (now Lenovo).
I know because I had a T60 a T90 before they sold off the division.
No, as noted previously, x did not start as blades
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
snip
Forcing an operator to type in his/her password over and over is as annoying
as it is wrong-headed. Passwords are intended to stay secure and every
password prompt is a potential, but usually necessary,
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote:
I hope that when people say Real Programmers don't comment code that they
are being humorous, or just kidding around. Assemble code for someone like
myself who has done a lot of coding, but done it a long time ago, is
Argh, key typo: ...they're NOW out of business...!
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote:
I hope that when people say Real Programmers don't comment code that they
are being humorous, or just
I'm trying to judge the level of penetration of the (relatively) new
DLL technology. So without getting into theology or categorical
imperatives, I'd be grateful if y'all could answer this question:
If you were told that to use a feature of a vendor product on z/OS,
you need to put some code in a
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Deaver
jeffrey.dea...@securian.com wrote:
Anybody know where I can find a list of the sessions held at the 2008
System z Expo? All the old links seem to point to the generic 2009 page
now. I'm trying to decide if my new Sys. Prog should head to SHARE
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I may be wrong, but I thought Oracle was still a per processor license, even
under z/Linux. A dozen Oracles on a zprocessor is cheaper
than the same on dedicated Intel boxen.
Yes, you are correct.
But, aside from being
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
You're assuming that you can only run ONE copy of Linux on a CPU.
I'm making no such assumption.
Pardon me. Implying. See below.
snip
While this is all very interesting, it doesn't answer my original query.
Somebody stated
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
I understand pricing (dis)advantages, which causes that it is cheaper to use
SAS on Intel than on z/OS, or run several Linux+Oracle images on IFL than
on several Intel machines.
However I'm curious - WHY ???
Why does
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I've heard (anecdotally) that Oracle is
abandoning z/OS because the z/OS customers have abandoned Oracle.
That statement is both true and false.
1. ORACLE is abandoning z/OS. 9 was the last (and 32-bit) release. If you
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Timothy Sipples
timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I think there may be some over-analysis here. In theory at least, any
vendor introducing their software product to a new (for them) platform can
price it however they want. SNIP
Of course. What I've seen is
Do folks care about USS? That is, do most z/OS shops actually use
USS for anything beyond the things they're forced to (TCP/IP stuff,
for example)?
My experience suggests that the general answer is No (with
exceptions, of course).
The related question is: Do folks use C on z/OS much?
And the
...your:
network folks
security folks
sysprogs
applications programmers
?
No, I don't mean those buttheads from downstairs, I mean what titles
do they typically have? We're discussing this internally and realized
we don't really know -- Engineer gets used a lot these days, except
in countries
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
snip
Or, followed by:
I
II
III
I've
Thanks! Just curious -- was the I've spellcheck/autocorrect to the
(un)rescue? Or automatic fingers? (There are words I can't type
reliably because they're too close to other words;
We are for someone to do some porting work to z/OS on a contract
basis: porting C code, packaging (not SMP/E), RACF, ICSF integration.
This is a several-month gig with possibly more work to follow, and
would be telecommuting.
If you think you might be this person, please send a résumé to this
What version of z/VM are you running?
2008/7/26 Tsai Laurence [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am in hurry writing you this short message, i traveled to Nigeria and i got
my self stranded.I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little
bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and
This is indeed OT, not that that stops anyone on this group :-) . The
real killer here is that Comcrap doesn't provide any way to measure
your usage -- so now we'll have Yet Another category of software we
have to buy for a stupid reason (to go with antivirus and antispam):
bandwidth measurement.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the article on Stretch:
[Stretch] ... could perform 100 billion computations a day and handle half
a million instructions per second.
There are 86400 seconds in one day. Half a million instructions
This is simpler? Three lines to replace one?
I'd hate to see your definition of cheaper ... :-)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Lindy Mayfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but there is always a simpler solution:
/* Rexx */
year=2010
y=year//100
c=(year-year//100)/100
mons = 'Sat Sun Mon
Do a *complete* port of cURL, including libcurl!
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/24/2008
at 12:09 AM, Ahmet Alper TEC MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there anybody who can advise to me a project title?
What are
Psystar is the current Mac clone vendor. Apple wants them dead.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:39 AM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember Mac clones. Hardware manufactured by some Taiwan company with
(legal) MacOS. It was approx. 14 years ago, possibly before MacOSX premiere,
surely on
This would work:
==
do until answer = N'
say 'Do you want to exit? (s/n)'
pull answer
if answer = 'S' then exit
end
==
It could be made a lot more elegant, of course.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Claudio Marcio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How make to receive
Why are folks giving him the same answer over and over again?
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OK, that wasn't entirely coherent. I meant, There are companies who
buy them to resell, and every now and then, someone NEEDS one.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:32 AM, P S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are folks who buy them. And every now and then, someone wants to
buy one. So it's A Good Thing
Or just replace the first line of the program with /**/ and you'll
know it's good (less scientific, but easier!).
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Under ISPF, edit your REXX using ISPF Picture Strings. Issue the command
on the command line:F P'.'
There are folks who buy them. And every now and then, someone wants to
buy one. So it's A Good Thing if you can find someone to take 'em,
even for pennies.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Ummm. If the program was loaded from SYSPROC, this will cause it
to be treated as a CLIST rather than an EXEC, and the OP is not
likely to know it's good.
Ah. That would be a TSO requirement -- that the first line have REXX
in it? If so, then my apologies. I use Rexx on other platforms.
Well, technically he's OK with the lack of continuation, but it's poor
style. That shouldn't be causing the message.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need a single quote at the end of line 100 and a comma after that to
continue the SAY to a second line -
This kind of feels like you really want to use a multi-level tail:
temp.1.x
Then drop temp. clears the whole set. I realize that might *not* be
what you want/need, but if you haven't considered it, you might.
Be aware that a stem is defined as the part before the FIRST period:
i.e., if you do:
I understand SCRT (at least, in theory).
But how do I find out the full theoretical MSU capacity of an LPAR?
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Patrick O'Keefe
patrick.oke...@wamu.net wrote:
I agree, but I think the astonishment is aimed at the drop rather
than the stem assignment. (At least MY astonishment is.) That
behavior implies that the interpreter has to maintain both a list
of specifically
IANALE, so wild speculation alert:
Emulation *might* be different--PSI kept saying they didn't do
emulation, although it quacked like a duck.
The AMD licensing might be slightly different, since their
architecture is slightly different.
But it's a great question! I'd love to know the answer.
Ignoring for the moment the very tangible benefits RACF bestows beyond
just the obvious, do y'all think it's more expensive (FSVO
expensive) to:
- read a 1-block QSAM file
- make a RACF request
?
This will settle an argument (maybe!) about whether it's worth
stuffing something in RACF just
Well, I'm showing my RACF ignorance in a big way, obviously! That
doesn't bother me, I can take it.
The issue is code that currently generates some data objects (they're
all small) and caches them in HFS. Someone said, They should be in
RACF. So a corollary question is, Does RACF allow definition
Sure, I've been being unnecessarily cagey -- trying to keep the
scenario simple, and overdoing it! Sorry 'bout that.
I think it really is an access control issue: we have symmetric
encryption keys that are managed by a process, but in the
non-mainframe world, you ask the key server whether you're
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote:
snip
So this is a marketplace contest of sorts to see who's got the most
efficiency (on a quality-adjusted basis) in their IT service delivery.
There are so many very savvy IT organizations betting heavily that the
modern
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:02 PM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote:
I need to learn REXX and fast. Does anyone know a good REXX for dummies
book?
The Rexx Language by Michael Cowlishaw. The IBM Rexx User's Guides are
good, too -- the one I remember (from 25 years ago, but why would it
have been
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Scott T. Harder
scott.har...@embarqmail.com wrote:
You are the man, and I mean that sincerely (your questions and comments at
the TDM's are legendary as far as I'm concerned), but isn't the parsing in
REXX better than Clist? I have no knowledge of IKJPARS and
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
snip
The approach I took, which I still regard as an excellent one from an upward
compatibility and interoperability standpoint, was to replace the CLISTs
one-by-one with REXX counterparts over several releases.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Does this imply that the specifications of interpreted
Rexx and compiled Rexx are apt to diverge? Ugh!
(Or is the syntax governed by a shared code base?)
I'd be astonished if they diverged. There's a shared codebase
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Todd Burch pro...@burchwoodusa.com wrote:
I was reviewing the CMS Application Programming Guide and came across a
reference to this Full Screen layout facility.
It referred to this VM CMS V2 publication. I looked it up on the IBM pub
ordering site, and it
Que'est-que c'est HIS? Horrible name to Google for, of course. I'm
guessing it's a HIStogram generator of some sort?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
We have converted our complex C++ document generation application to
Robert Galambos wrote:
It isn't Hyperbole. According to studies, which I mention at least one,
the average cost is about $197 USD and that was in 2007. If you consider ALL
cost (which can include lost of sales, legal costs, cost to 'maintain the
customer base', cost for credit
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com wrote:
Couldn't agree more. Forget about open source and give us back the FLEX-ES
offering.
You do realize FLEX-ES wasn't an IBM offering, right?
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Yeah, the $200/card probably reflects the fact that if a stolen card
gets used, it likely get used for several under-$500 purchases (I
believe that's the current level to increase the card provider's
interest in verification). So if a stolen card that gets used costs
$2,000 on average, that means
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Schuster pgs4ibmm...@pacbell.net wrote:
From, for example, a batch job running on a z/os system which in turn is a
VM guest, can this batch job issue CP commands? I was looking at DIAG 8 but
it sort of implies that this works for the VM id which is the VM
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote:
I kinda thought that might be the answer. Maybe I will put in a Share
Request for ISPF to do this.
Waste of time -- it's a hardware limitation and I don't think there's
a whole lot of 3270 hardware enhancements
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Gilbert Saint-Flour
usenet5...@yahoo.com wrote:
Most of the things I see on http://www.share.org/ have a .aspx suffix,
which, if I'm not mistaken, tells us they use a Microsoft Web server.
Perhaps they should use something that's less likely to be broken into ?
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Steve Comstock
st...@trainersfriend.com wrote:
I'd like to compile a list of available HTTP servers
for z/OS. I'm aware of these:
* the free HPPT server V5R3 that comes with z/OS
based on the old CERN technology (but still a
viable server)
* the version
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Ummm, guys, I kind of guessed that obfuscation was the general intent of the
exercise. The ignorance part was about the mechanics involved; e.g. if the
OP is talking about masking a database record for each of those
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Phil Smith III li...@akphs.com wrote:
The following is typical output found in the SYSMSG produced by a batch job
on our z/OS 1.9 system:
-STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC EXCP CONN TCB SRB CLOCK SERV
-NNN1SW 00 2326 1195 200.44 .00
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote:
I can think of only one tiny shop in Ohio that still uses punch cards,
although very rarely (once a month?). Any others?
My dad used punch cards until he died in 2006. Of course, he carried
them in his shirt pocket as
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I am told that APAR OA20761 fixed the IEFACTRT sample exit (named
IEEACTRT), among other things. This fix is in the GA version of z/OS 1.9
and does not need to be installed. You could not order the GA z/OS 1.9
without that
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Schwarz, Barry A
barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote:
Just out of curiosity, where does IND$FILE get or put files that are
being transferred. I don't remember ever having any kind of file system
on a 3270.
It transfers them fine, just doesn't store the result.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Arthur Gutowskiaguto...@ford.com wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:43:38 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler
l...@garlic.com wrote:
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote:
thanks looks like your right lan people has not updated the
server with all the names yet..
That's vaguely scary -- you have two separate DNS that don't talk to each
other? One should (FSVO should) be a secondary,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bill Washburn
bwashb...@winwholesale.comwrote:
This might seem like an odd request-
But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge
how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to
their mainframe.
If
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote:
And, sometimes they're rejected even *after* they're implemented! :-D
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0407L=ibm-main-archivesP=R2529I=1X=-
And I remember a VM session at SHARE where a requirement went from
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.comwrote:
While not a 'programming interface' as such, message text figures
prominently in all automation products I know of, including IBM's. Great
pains are taken to inform customers of text changes via 'AO' System Hold
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Timothy Sipples
timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.comwrote:
snip
As I recall, z/VM Version 5 was the first major software product that
required ARCHLVL 2 (z/Architecture).
z/VM Version 4. z/VM 3.1 was the last that would run on pre-z machines.
IIRC, z/VM V5 got a new
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.comwrote:
Now that makes absolutely no sense. I'd be willing to bet that others have
had the opposite happen.
Sure it does. If the existing box is old enough, IBM really does NOT want to
maintain it: they'd rather upgrade you
And of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_%28word%29
explains it properly.
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Ah...it looks like what happens if you interpret 8 ASCII space characters as
an integer:
x'2020202020202020' = 2314885530818453536
The bogus value is allegedly 23148855308184500, but I'd be willing to
believe that someone dropped the $35.36 on the end! Either that or the value
was ALMOST blank
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Denis Gäbler denisgaeb...@netscape.netwrote:
Taking the electric meter example. What if I install solar electicity
panels? Am I stealing ressources and bypass the power companies meter? Am I
not allowed to use the electricity that the panels produce, just
Does anyone here recall any published news articles or incidents
involving mainframe hacking (any flavor of VM, VSE or MVS)? Do you
personally know of any incidents?
Or have any such been kept on the QT?
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You don't say? :-)
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Gainsford,
Allenallen.gainsf...@eds.com wrote:
Anyone who's read The Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas Ryan will know
exactly how to do it. :)
Ouch. Besides the technical inaccuracies, that book was irritating
because for no apparent reason it misplaced University
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Hal Merritthmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Well, does a hurricane count? Generally, the category of a hurricane just
about matches the F number for a tornado (a category three hurricane is about
the same wind speed and destructive force as a F-3 tornado). In
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jerry
Whitteridgejerry.whitteri...@safeway.com wrote:
Agreed -- we are allowed no unsecured file transfer to the mainframe due
to PCI. Our preference is FTPS but we could (for certain kludges) work
with SFTP. All vendors need to be reconsidering their
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Kirk Talmanrkueb...@tsys.com wrote:
Visa does have cards beginning w/2. Don't know what they are yet.
See http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Shaneibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote:
This just has to get uglier.
Seems every vendor (IBM included) has been been announcing (to great
fanfare) new exploitation of specialty engines. Presumably with IBMs
imprimatur.
So the initial concept has become quite a bit
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Edward
Jaffeedja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
That might be their objective. If so, it's a failed strategy.
IBM knows that many ISVs figured out long ago how to enable 3rd-party code
to run on zAAP/zIIP. (A fun exercise.) If IBM bought NEON (or zPrime) to
In reading various LE and IMS documentation, I've come to the
[conc][de]lusion that invoking a set of C functions that require
POSIX(ON) won't be that hard under IMS (as opposed to, say, CICS,
where it basically doesn't work without a lot of undocumented
environmental setup).
Anyone done this?
.
probably prevails.
P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote in message
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In reading various LE and IMS documentation, I've come to the
[conc][de]lusion that invoking a set of C functions that require
POSIX(ON) won't be that hard under IMS
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Scott Rowescott.r...@joann.com wrote:
You certainly can specify both a port number and a resource name for the
x3270 sessions. IIRC, the implementation is a little strange, but it can be
done, I have done it.
Anyone ever wonder what kind of drugs the HMC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich
And now back to your regularly scheduled ramblings...
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Patrick O'Keefepatrick.oke...@wamu.net wrote:
No z/... abbreviation or phrase for anything Unixy except for zFS .
Even z/Linux is omited.
Official IBM policy is that it does not use terms that include others'
trademarks. Thus the official name is Linux for System
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bill Fairchildbi...@mainstar.com wrote:
Not trying to be pendantic, but I think the word is pedant. :-)
True, but pe(n)dants are used to being hung...
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ed Gouldps2...@yahoo.com wrote:
IBM wants to get more workloads running on more mainframes, and is willing to
slash prices to do so - but shops will have to put new workloads designated
by IBM as solution editions to get cheaper iron.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Edward
Jaffeedja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
P S wrote:
Interesting. I wonder what this was SUPPOSED to say:
The Solution Edition pricing is not just available to customers who
buy new System z10 Business Class (BC) or Enterprise Class (EC)
mainframes
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ed Finnellefinnel...@aol.com wrote:
_The Associated Press: Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers_
(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8XW66VLO5uQTgUW-ha_8H6Qm
BZAD9A596H85)
This isn't a new breach, despite how the mainstream press
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mark Postmp...@novell.com wrote:
That's what the article is implying, except the author doesn't seem to have a
grasp of TCA, let alone TCO. He seems to have some sort of issue with Linux
for System z. Not sure why.
Right, things like this:
Because IBM is
Nicely put!
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Timothy Sipplese99...@jp.ibm.com wrote:
Hewlett-Packard reported its 3Q earnings earlier today:
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Edward
Jaffeedja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
As I understand it, ONE useless IPL-time instruction program checks on an
IFL (and possibly other specialty engines). This conveniently prevents z/OS
from IPLing on a specialty engine.
I know one ISV that wanted
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote:
SNIP
Somewhat OT: I have the experience that VB files (lrecl1000 at least)
have *much* worse prestanda than FB files in the ISPF editor.
Anyone with the same or other experience ?
prestanda is Swedish for
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
And, airfare from Japan to the U.S. isn't free...
? Not trying to be confrontational, but what does that have to do with it?
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kelman, Tom
thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote:
I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related
and kind of funny. I'm just glad I'm not a performance analyst for
Telkom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/od_nm/us_safrica_pigeon
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Edward Jaffe
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:
Cost/benefit analysis...
Ah. Well, still cheaper than a 1Gbit/sec line for 24 hours...
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